Acer Predator Helios 16 | Nvidia RTX 4080 | Core i9 13900HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz |16 GB DDR5 RAM | 1 TB PCIe Gen 4 SSD | $2,229.99 $1,839.99 at Best Buy (Save $460)
We love the modern Acer Predator Helios line, previously highly praising the Helios 16 in our review. This is because they have excellent build quality and incredible power for their size. This model is fitted with an RTX 4080 which is the best mobile GPU for most people, with a great mix of gaming performance, efficiency, and thermal headroom. Basically, you don't need the vast cooling the RTX 4090 does to stretch its silicon legs in something like the Acer Predator Helios 18. That CPU is a beast for both gaming and productivity work and, while the screen isn't quite as bright as the mini-LED model, at 500 nits it will be plenty bright enough for all those beefy games you will be playing.
Even though they have some pretty funny names, Acer's range of monitors, laptops, and more, are often rather wonderful. If you've found yourself with the desire to run, well, pretty much any game out there, and want it to be portable, this is a mighty 16-inch laptop available right now at a very good discount.
The Acer Predator Helios 16 is $1,840 at Best Buy at the moment, which is $460 cheaper than its full price, and about as cheap as we've seen an RTX 4080 laptop outside of Black Friday. This is, admittedly, still a pretty high price point, but the mobile RTX 4080 is the most powerful card I'd wholeheartedly recommend putting in a laptop under 17-inches. For the price and heat, an RTX 4090 might be a little too much for most smaller cooling arrays and this 16-inch laptop balances the second-tier Nvidia GPU's power demands well.
The Intel Core i9 13900HX processor sitting alongside it makes for a solid gaming and productivity device, which means you can play and record games, then edit them with near-peak performance. The 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of SSD storage, and IPS screen are the only real downsides to
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